This Week in 1956: TV debuts, rock ’n’ roll riots and a dancing senior citizen takes on the world

This Week in 1956: TV debuts, rock ’n’ roll riots and a dancing senior citizen takes on the world

In the third week of September 1956, a small number of Australians finally saw what all the fuss was about when regular TV broadcasts began. It was a quiet start - unlike the arrival of the raucous, riot-inspiring youth movie Rock Around The Clock. But the new craze didn’t impress Janese Dooley, the 65-year-old widow who’d just danced not around the clock but around the world!


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